wiz, have a look here

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

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"wiz546" <wiz546@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> can Excel logical functions recognize cell color shading? For example, a
> cell formula be created to add cells in a column that are shaded green and
> ignore cells shaded blue?